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10 January 2025 Friday after Epiphany SundaySan Pietro I Orseolo, Venice Readings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 5 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Monday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and choose your local calendar...

Before PDJT does anything else, he MUST grant unconditional pardons for EVERY J6 prisoner, with a $1M restitution for each one. NO EXCEPTIONS!We must close the American Gulag - now and forever - and jail for life those who ran this disgusting communist spectacle, which turned the FBI into the NKVD.

History will remember this era as the moment when America’s most sacred principles collided with unprecedented institutional power – and lost. The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights didn’t happen through military force or executive decree, but through the quiet cooperation of tech platforms, media gatekeepers, and government agencies, all claiming to protect us from “misinformation.” Meta’s sudden dismantling of its fact-checking program – announced by Zuckerberg as a “cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech” – reads like a quiet footnote to what history may record as one of the most staggering violations of fundamental rights in recent memory. After eight...

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has banned insurance companies from canceling or not renewing polices for homeowners affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires for one year, his office announced. He also wants to backdate that to Oct. 9. pretty much reminds you of Directive 10-289 ... https://theexplanationproject.fandom.com/wiki/Directive_10-289

Celebrities who have lost their homes in the firesEastEnders actress Patsy Palmer says her home has "miraculously" escaped the flames, after her husband and children were evacuated. The soap star, 52, who is in London, said her Malibu home had been surrounded by fires twice recently. But many others have not been so lucky: The list of celebrities who lost their houses in the worst fire in Los Angeles history reads like a Hollywood who's who. Reality star Paris Hilton said she watched her Malibu home "burn to the ground on live TV". She has launched an emergency fund to...

When Hurricanes Milton and Helene ravaged the Southeast in the fall, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said she feared that a whole new level of disinformation was taking hold. “It’s absolutely the worst I’ve ever seen,” she told reporters, as conspiracy theorists claimed their favorite agency was suddenly, absolutely detaining locals in tents, only saving trans people, not saving white people, demanding all aid money be repaid with interest and other blatant absurdities spread in online posts. Criswell may have wanted to save the superlatives for January. The fires currently tearing through the homes of entertainment-industry professionals and (a far greater...

Actor Mel Gibson slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s handling of the devastating wildfires during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Thursday. Gibson highlighted Newsom’s neglect of wildfire prevention efforts while directing billions of taxpayer dollars towards woke initiatives.

The suspects made an unsuccessful attempt to cut a lock to uniform storage Three Humvees and other military equipment were stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California earlier this week, according to police. Unknown suspects entered a storage warehouse at the Army Reserve Center on Wednesday between 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Tustin Police wrote in a press release. Multiple storage lockers at the facility were found with removed locks and missing gear. The suspects made an unsuccessful attempt to cut a lock to uniform storage. Police said the suspects cut a fence to gain access to a...

Greenland’s leader Múte Egede said he is prepared to enter into negotiations with President-elect Trump about the future of the mineral-rich arctic territory — but warned his people had no interest in becoming Americans. At a press conference Friday in Denmark, which exercises nominal sovereignty over Greenland, Egede said he accepted that Greenland was “a place that the Americans see as part of their world” and that while he has not spoken with Trump, he was open to “discussions about what unites us.” “We are ready to talk,” he said. “Cooperation is about dialogue. Cooperation means that you will work...

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) stated that she doesn’t want to get into politics about the fires in California, but “services cost money and we should be willing to get the richest people in this country, the richest 1% that is protected, make sure they pay their fair taxes so that we can have the money to provide the services. With that money and with those resources, the people who have been selected or elected to do the job should do the job.” Waters began by saying, “I’m not into the blame game. I’m not...

Getting enough quality sleep is essential for maintaining overall health. It supports better brain function, strengthens the immune system, and promotes a healthy heart. On the other hand, sleep disorders like insomnia and sleep apnea can harm both health and quality of life. Poor sleep has also been linked to the early onset of neurodegenerative diseases and can serve as an early warning sign of dementia. ---SNIP--- The study also holds a warning for people who use the commonly prescribed sleep aid zolpidem. The drug suppressed the glymphatic system, potentially setting the stage for neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s, which are...

Still, for the last 15 years plus, the United States has led the world in reducing carbon emissions. The extent of this leadership can be found in the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, which shows that over the last 15 years, the U.S. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from energy, process emissions, methane and flaring. Indeed, as compared to 2013, the U.S. has been able to reduce carbon dioxide equivalents by 8.5 percent even as it has massively grown it economy through aggressive drilling for and using cleaner burning natural gas, including natural gas...

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his Meta company, which operates Facebook and Instagram, had abandoned its DEI practices. As part of that move, the company told facilities managers to remove the tampons from the men's bathrooms. "That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley," The New York Times reported, "Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said." Some people could hardly beleive that this had been the...

READ MORE: LA's water chief 'knew about empty reservoir and broken hydrants Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon, a source close to the chief’s office told DailyMail.com. ‘Kristin was summoned by Bass this afternoon, about 4pm. She came back from that meeting, hugged her staff goodbye and left. She said she was fired,’ the source said. The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the Mayor’s cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday. ‘My message is the fire department needs to...

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Recently I discovered totally by accident that Robert's Rules of Order was completed at LibriVox. I know many of you will appreciate having this alternate way of accessing this material. Here's the summary: "Originally written in 1876 by Major Henry M. Robert of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Robert's Rules of Order is the most widely used authority in the United States today for "parliamentary law, based...upon the rules and practice of Congress" for "organizing and conducting the business of societies, conventions, and other deliberative assemblies.""Enjoy! https://librivox.org/roberts-rules-of-order-by-henry-m-robert/#

John Eastman, the Claremont Institute scholar and conservative firebrand who stood by President Trump’s side all throughout some of the darkest days in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election when the republic was on the line, will have his story told for the first time on the silver screen come the new year. The documentary, titled The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice, is slated for a fitting January 6th, 2025, release date, the fourth anniversary of the January 6th demonstration (but will premiere at Mar-a-Lago in a special event two days earlier). The film marks the culmination of a...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder. A gutter full of dry leaves is a cradle for an inferno. Think of a rosebush against a bedroom window: fire food. The roses burn first, melting the vinyl seal around the window. The glass pane falls. A shoal of embers enter the house like a school...

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The wildfires engulfing Los Angeles have put an uncomfortable spotlight on two of its richest residents — Stewart and Lynda Resnick — agriculture tycoons whose farms guzzle a vital and scarce resource: water. So far, the Resnicks' Beverly Hills mansion, and the Picasso artworks that adorn its walls, have been spared the nearby Palisades and Eaton fires, even as their celebrity neighbors' homes go up in smoke. But they cannot so easily escape criticism for their agriculture empire, which sucks up more water than whole cities, even as LA firefighters cannot get a drop of the stuff out of the...